this area coincides with the area that the national transportation safety board, that's the american flight investigators told them would be the best area to concentrate their viewing in, and they had calculated that by the best idea where the plane had gone once it got out into the indiana ocean. the best calculation is it has gone south. there was the two big arcs they marked off from where the satellite received pings before it crashed. this was at the southern end of the southern arc. they calculated where they thought the plane would have run out of fuel and gone in. as i understand it this coinc e coincidecoincid coincides with that area. it's a logical place for the wreckage to be in. that means a lot too. we'll see. >> i know you'll be standing by for us. thank you very much. it's three minutes past 2:00 in the morning here on the east coast. recapping our breaking news. tony abbott says objects possibly related to the missing malaysian plane have been spotted. he says locating the objects will be difficult and they could turn out to be unrelated. he says he has spoken to his

the national transportation safety board is among those agencies investigating. >> the man responsible for the deadly shooting inside this -- in the mall and columbia, maryland, was obsessed with the columbine shooting. marilyn bureau chief red belt live outside the mall. what role did mental illness lay and what happened? >> police say a played a big role. they said he started a deep dissent into mental illness just about one year ago when he began excessively researching other mass shootings. as it turns out, planning his own. >> weeks before he killed two innocent victims in the columbia mall, he photographed himself with his gun. it is an image he took moments before he emerged firing from the store dressing room, which police said may reveal his motive. >> in this picture he is dressed in cargo pants and boots.

>> jarron:ing me is the former director of the national transportation safety board, ntsb. he's now is senior vice president at o'neill & associates. thanks for being here. there's been misinformation and corrections from the malaysian authorities on whether wreckage had been spotted where the last radar detection of the plane was, whether passengers checked in but didn't board the plane, on how the men who were using stolen passports, who they were, their description. at best, they're bad at communication. at worst they are incompetent. have you ever seen it this bad? >> this is the worst i've seen it in recent time, and there's a reason for this. you know, anytime there's an accident, an international one like this, there's chaos during the first 24, 36 hours. that's why there's a treaty that everyone signs, the malaysians have signed. it sets out the procedures and the process. how do you take on an investigation of this magnitude? how do you involve the other countries that have an interest in this? how do you control rumors and release factual information? to this day t

. >>> the national transportation safety board is investigating a crash of a tv news helicopter in seattle. two beam on board the chopper were killed in the fiery wreck. government officials say they should have a preliminary report by next week. bigad shaban has our report. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: flames and smoke filled a seattle intersection after a local news helicopter crashed onto the street, hitting at least three cars. the pilot gary pfitzner and veteran photographer bill strothman were killed. strothman's son dan who is also a photographer on tv is still trying to come to grips with his father's death. >> he was a great photographer but he was just a great person. >> reporter: the helicopter for the seattle station komo-tv was lifting off from this rooftop near the city's famous space needle when witnesses say the chopper began to tilt. the national transportation safety board and the faa are still investigating the cause. >> our investigative team are looking into the mechanical as well as the environment as well as the pilot. >> reporter: the mayor plans to examine its polic

us on the phone from albuquerque is alan diehl, forker accident investigator with the national transportation safety board. how do you view the announcement by the australian prime minister. >> erica put it well - it's promising but tentative. we'll have to wait until we get our hands on the debris, and make sure that it is, in fact, part of a 777, and then we'll know where to start looking a bit better. >> and we've had a lot of conflicting information. is this one of the best leads yet? >> yes, it's - it looks good, okay. i should mention that i used to work for the navy and train p3 crews, and todd was talking about them. they are capable aircraft, but we may need a lot more of them. because we found a piece of the airplane, if that's what it is, we have to study the tides, we have to study the currents, the wind. this - people say this is a needle in a haystack. i have said it's a needle in a heyfield. now we seem to have found the haystack. if this holds up, we'll have a lot of tough searching and we have to find the black boxes. the pingers are the key. >> they could give off symbols, the black boxe

they came up with this area based on work by the national transportation safety board from the uniteds which had said focus in this area. what the ntsb had done was brought in all of the conflicting information we'd been receiving up to two weeks now. put it together and say what is most credible? what markers make most sense? we know the jet moved to north so when it left kuala lumpur it turned back into the west. that it made what appeared to be according to data given, a number of jogs in a northern arc or southern arc. officials had been saying over the northern arc it would have been over land. it didn't make sense to anyone involved no one would have spotted it. there are many radar stagses along the way. it could have flown until 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning there. so it's possible people should have seen such a thing but there weren't any credible roberts of that. so focusing on this southern arc taking it down into the indian ocean now, we know the area they believe they found something. two large pieces of something. that they apparently have reason to believe may be the jet.

the coast guard and the national transportation safety board also sent investigators. >> the lead locomotive was found buried in the mud at about a 45-degree angle, and three-quarters of it you could not see it. it just buried itself into the marsh. >> a second engine was alongside. a third was on the opposite side of the bridge. four derailed cars were nearby. as a local salvage crew began the grim task of pulling the dead from the bayou, investigators wanted to know what caused the deadliest accident in amtrak history. >>> in the early hours of september 22, 1993, amtrak's sunset limited plummeted off the bayou canot bridge in alabama, killing 42 passengers and 5 crew members. ten minutes before the sunset limited derailed, a freight train crossed the bridge in the opposite direction without incident. so, what happened in those ten minutes? divers recovered the train's event recorder from the bayou, which is like an airline's flight data recorder. the tape revealed the train was traveling at 72 miles per hour and there was no brake application. whatever caused the crash, the engineer never

the images were found on satellite after the national transportation safety board instructed those in the area that they believe the place to look was there. so the australians led the way in focusing air resources, maritime, resources and satellites on that particular area. and then they found these items of interest. first the australian prime minister went to his parliament and said, we have what we believe to be some large pieces. we think it's possible it may be the boeing 777 missing for 12 days. then the authorities came out and gave you a news conference. we'll give you parts of that for those of you who may have missed it. now they have resources on the way and some on site. for more than three hours, they've had a government aircraft above the scene. they're sending three others, which are expected to be there within an hour to three hours, depending on which jet you're talking about and then water resources, ships and the rest, are on the way as well. the hope is, they'll be able to find this, fly low to see if there are survivors. first of all, if it is indeed wreckage fro

. >> reporter: experts from china, the national transportation safety board, and faa are part of the team investigating. >> we will have a much better idea of what exactly happened once we're able to recover the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. >> reporter: the boeing 777 carrying 239 people was en route to beijing from malaysia's capital city saturday when it vanished. military radar suggests the pilots may have turned back toward kuala lumpur without warning. up to four passengers with questionable identification were on board, including two people who used stolen passports. >> but we cannot rule out terrorism at this time, but we should be careful not to jump to a conclusion. >> reporter: the families of chinese passengers on board are demanding answers and applying for visas and expedited passports to travel to where the doomed flight took off. >> that was marlie hall reporting. now, philip wood was one of three americans known to have been on the malaysian jet. wood is an executive at ibm and his family saw him a week ago when he visited them from texas. he h

the images were found on satellite after the national transportation safety board instructed those in the area that they believe the place to look was there. so the australians led the way in focusing air resources, maritime, resources and satellites on that particular area. and then they found these items of interest. first the australian prime minister went to his parliament and said, we have what we believe to be some large pieces. we think it's possible it may be the boeing 777 missing for 12 days. then the authorities came out and gave you a news conference. we'll give you parts of that for those of you who may have missed it. now they have resources on the way and some on site. for more than three hours, they've had a government aircraft above the scene. they're sending three others, which are expected to be there within an hour to three hours, depending on which jet you're talking about and then water resources, ships and the rest, are on the way as well. the hope is, they'll be able to find this, fly low to see if there are survivors. first of all, if it is indeed wreckage fro

but the national transportation safety board told those involved, we believe this is the place to look. remember, they at one point had a search area six times the size of the united states. 12 hours ago, that search area was down to the united states. by the time we were on the air in primetime on the east coast on wednesday night, it appeared that this search area had gone down to some hundred thousand square miles. which compared to the rest is a much smaller area. but now they have been able to hone it in on one particular area. will they be able to find it in the next hours or next days? we cannot be of any certainty at this point. let's get to michael kay, former adviser to the united kingdom's defense ministry and a frequent guest on our programs on fox news channel. michael, if nothing else, this is the most, makes sense sort of advisory that we've received today. >> yeah, good evening. good to chat. i think i want to follow on kathryn's point which i think is critical. you've already mentioned the search area, some 1,500 miles off the southwestern tip of australia and i think

also tonight there are federal investigators here from the national transportation safety board, the agency that also investigates pipeline explosions here tonight to try to keep the situation under control. back to you, ann. >> all right, ron allen, thank you for reporting on the story. >>> meanwhile, in san francisco tonight investigators are trying to determine if welding work was the cause of a huge fire that tore through an apartment complex under construction, completely engulfing it in flames yesterday afternoon. the smoke was seen for miles and nearby areas were evacuated as crews battled the flames for hours. two firefighters suffered minor injuries. >>> in a show of solidarity today, president obama met with ukraine's acting president at the white house during the ongoing tensions with russia. senator john mccain plans to lead a delegation of lawmakers to ukraine tomorrow. >>> tonight, we continue our special coverage on the syria children of war. more than 140,000 people have been killed so far since the war began there three years ago this week. at least 10,000 of them ha

initially, the national transportation safety board had an area about 370,000 square miles. hen they said you know what? in the last 36 hours, we're going to make that area a little bit smaller and they made it around 117,000 square miles. it's just down here where that satellite image suggested that there were two pieces of debris. so flying out of perth, the aircraft had made their way down to that area just south of the target area to see whether they can get confirmation of what those satellite images suggest. of course, what the australian authorities say is after analyzing these pictures macon march 16th, it appears there may be two pieces of debris in the water. we look at those pictures. one of them rather sizable about 78 feet. it's slow the floating in water. the water is, according to a vessel in the area, about three days ago now, reporting that the seas were about nine feet and there were 25 knot winds in the area. it's a pretty rough area right now, floating there what could be debris and if it is debris, it's what's likely what's known as the skin of the aircra

you're a former chairman of the ntsb, the national transportation safety board. the ntsb announced they have individuals, they have experts on the scene in kuala lumpur working with malaysian authorities. what are they doing? >> well, wolf, i certainly hope we have some of our forensic radar people there to assist them. this investigation to this point has been without effective leadership, and you know it's are been very unfortunate all this information that's come out and then been corrected and, you know, i think the international civil aviation organization is going to have to look at restructuring how international investigations are done. if we're going to have a country that can operate this type of aircraft, then we need to anticipate the worst and have a coordinated investigative effort. and i think the rules are going to have to be changed. >> let me bring steven wallace back into this conversation. malaysian airlines ceo was at a news conference today. he was unable to answer whether the faa's calls for inspections on possible cracks in the 777 that cou

the u.s. national transportation safety board have been refined somewhat, based on better -- or more detailed analysis. the area at the end of those analyses has been refined by work done by the national transportation safety board on the fuel reserves that the aircraft could have flown. and you will see it has also moved a little east, so it's not the path that it was for yesterday's search. >> reporter: all right. so you can see the australians tracking that. they have also put out a call to maritime marine ships in the area, merchant ships, asking them to be on the lookout. some ships have responded. three of them went through that area already. but still, we came up empty today in the search for flight 370. rosa. >> you know, jim, one of the things that really stands out to me, we get all of these tidbits of information, whether it be from the reprogramming of the computer. or the information we got from thailand radar. and it begs the question what all information is out there that perhaps we don't know yet? but other governments, or the malaysian governments might know about, that would

we have them looking for the plane the national transportation safety boards are on the ground>> the officials are investigating passengers and p crew on the plane who may have had contact. >> joining me now is stormer assistant vice chair of the staff lieutenants general richard newton the third. thank you for joining us. welcome back. good to have you again. >> tlr so many things we don't know about the mystery malaysian nig flight 370 what are the possible scenarios that need fto be focused on in terms of looking for the airplane? we can determine how it occurred and we will get to the whys eventually. we heard from the prime minister in malaysia earlier stating the fact it appeared to be a deliberate brat a-- deliberate act. some type of misbehavior in the cockpit got us to the point of where we are right now. >> there have been hours and hours of speculation on television and radio about what happened and all of the different things that had been portrayed this could have been, this could have been. what do we actually genuinely know at this point? >> what we know is we have pie

a lot of the credit for that goes to the national transportation safety board, which is one of the most effective government agencies we've got in carrying out its mission, and which learns from every air mishap, then incorporates those lessons in law and policy. a lot of credit goes to the airlines themselves. greatly underappreciated for their dogged determination to put safety first in their operations. and understandably so. an airline disaster resulting in a crash and a loss of lives costs millions in litigation, reparations, and it costs the carrier unbelievable sums due to bad publicity and the loss of trust from the public. that results in diminished revenues and it can take decades to recover. the qualifications that are required for pilots on the mainline carriers is stringent, but i don't want you to think the safety issue is with only those in the cockpit. the flight attendants aren't just there to toss snacks and serve drinks at 35,000 feet. they're highly trained professionals. they stand ready to risk their own lives to get you safely out of that plane should something go

and after the longest investigation that the national transportation safety board has ever done, after four years, concluded it was a spark in the central fuel tank that caused the explosion. and we have seen this also in cases like egyptair, where ntsb came to the conclusion that the plane had been brought down in the atlantic by a pilot intentionally, which is something you can't discount. it's very unusual. in pan am 103, some people posed it was a cia operation that had blown up over scotland. no evidence of that at all. but, you know, people -- it's natural human tendency when something catastrophic happens, often people seek some kind of explanation, more than the mundane explanation that usually turns out to be the case. >> and what does it say to you? and it may mean nothing at all -- we just heard nic robertson report at the top of the hour, the individual who actually bought these two tickets for these two passengers were the stolen passports was an iranian individual, bought the tickets with cash in thailand for some reason. and then these passengers got on that plane. what,

john gully is a former member of the national transportation safety board. john, you've talked about this for the last few days. i'm seeing you everywhere. i don't have anything special to ask you i'm going to keep with the basics if it's okay with you. i want to ask is you why we don't know more about the disappearance of this flight? >> i recently said to a friend of mine. we are measuring this accident in the eyes of the united states, or western europe, where we have multiple radars, painting every single airplane in the sky. thousands of radio antennas, we have all the latest gadgets here in the western hemisphere. this airplane was out in the south pacific. where there's not a lot of land mass. lots of little countries that cannot afford the infrastructure that we have in the west. and we're measuring them by our standards. you can't do that. i mean, a radar station is far away. think back to the second world war. radar stations hitting a target with primary radar, they can't tell you very much. and it's not, as always, reliable as you like. so i questi

analysis on here, you might recall on the slide here the two yellow arrows done by the national transportation safety boardovements of the aircraft that has focused the search. and we have now seen satellite imagery of two objects or a number of objects there. and i don't want to draw too much from that. this is a lead. it is probably the best lead we have right now. but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them. to know whether it is really meaningful or not. and i caution again they will be difficult to find. and they may not be that assis >> we continue to work with those nations to see how they can assist. >> the chinese -- >> we are aware of the chinese taking an interest in searching in the southern area, but we continue to work with nations to facilitate their integration into the current situation. >> we provide regular briefings for the countries that are involved in this search. including in the rescue coordination center. where attaches come in on a daily basis so we can keep them informed about what is going on. >> in the specific area, you will continue to search in the area -- >>

federal aviation authority, and the national transportation safety board in helping us with the investigationare there any questions? -- you state your name [inaudible] >> i am sorry? i cannot confirm that. [inaudible] >> basically -- [indiscernible] [speaking foreign langauge] [speaking foreign language] this is a new template were i will attend on a daily basis this time of day. >> we do have -- [inaudible] >> search and recovery, and what other types -- what are the factors of survival? we are still -- the chances lot on --l depends a we don't know where the aircraft is. aircraft, thenhe we can -- >> let me just add to that. i would like to confirm that our immediate focus is to try to find the aircraft. and then next, we get the aircraft in the black box. it is unlikely that we'll will be able to answer a lot of speculative issues. with what is out there. our focus is on -- focusing on that as the main priority. can you confirm if the airplane has crashed? >> we are focusing both on the south china sea and in the straits of -- in the statements i have issued, there are 42 ships and 39 air

it was the national transportation safety board. gives us a greater degree of confidence in what it is we are doing. >> the malaysian investigators say it is an incredible lead but they continue to search both corridors for the missing plane. >> david piper reporting live for us this morning. >> if that debris in the indian ocean does be long to flight 73 two major questions remain, how and why. doug luzader is live in washington with what's next in this investigation which is far from over. >> if a from over, good morning, ainsley. assuming that wreckage is in fact wreckage from the airliner they have to go through the arduous task of locating the airliner itself. awe lot has been made about the battery on the black box and it operates 30-days which means we are getting toward the middle of that. 30-days is a minimum that would have to send that pinging signal for investigators to reach the aircraft. assuming they do if they get a hold of the data it could answer big questions. how was it the transponders were should off? >> those

experts from china, the national transportation safety board and the faa, are all a part of the teamestigating working to figure out what happened. greg boswell for cbs news, washington. >> stay tuned for continuing coverage. we have the latest information on kpix 5 and online at kpix.com. >>> fremont fire department said they've never seen anything like this before. a series of overnight fires targeting schools and public buildings. kpix 5 reporter kip on the hunt now for an arsonist. >> reporter: it's not clear which fire started first, but this one at james leach elementary was the first one neighbors called in at 2:40 this morning and a good thing too. firefighters got there in time to save the building. >> i feel a sense of frustration and anger when anything happens that's hurtful to children. >> reporter: that was a portable classroom in the back of campus. the second fire at a public restroom and the third fire at the little league refreshment stand and shed happened within a hour hour within four blocks of each other. the restroom was at warm springs park and heavily damaged

the plane, and everyone on board, disappeared. kir simmons, nbc news, malaysia. >> again tonight we turn to an aviation expert, a former senior air safety director with the national transportation safety board and a veteran pilot. greg, always nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> there's no search area. there's an arc over a lot of land mass on this planet. you've got investigators right now who are used to combing through wreckage. nothing to comb through. this is a difficult question because people are waiting for loved ones right now, but are there going to have to be some hard decisions made in this -- in the coming days and weeks? >> absolutely, lester. there comes a point where you have to really examine the return on investment. there are so many assets out there, so many countries that are participating, this stage of 11 days into this event if you will. because we're not really sure what kind of investigation to call it. accident or intentional act. i think the malaysians have said intentional act. so you have all these technical investigators sitting there waiting to do something. but they can't. there's going to come a point with this search area, so massive, that

add tog the grief of the families, the national transportation safety board would conclude all this was act of one man, a pilot who wanted to commit suicide. >> it ended up crashing here in the river. >> reporter: thomas anthony remembers silk air 185 clearly, because he was with the faa civil aviation security division and was part of the silk air investigation. a pilot intentionally downing a passenger plane is still hard for him to think about. how horrifying is that? as someone who is investigating this? >> it's something that most of us should never consider, because it is so extremely rare, it is beyond -- almost beyond imagination. >> reporter: still disputed, anthony points out. indonesian investigators say the cause remains inconclusive. in a civil trial, a los angeles jury decided the crash was caused by a failed part of the plane's rudder. the victim's families never got a clear answer. just like another crash, egypt air flight 990. the ntsb ruled the pilot intentionally caused the 1999 crash. egyptian authorities say it was caused by mechanical failure. >> it's like a jigsaw

the southern indian ocean. flight 370 was flying from kuala lumpur to beijing with 239 on board. a team of investigators will travel to malaysia to help the search. they'll join several americans with the national transportation safety board, who are there. >> they are investigating all option, including the possibility that the plane was intentionally diverted. they are trying to find out more about the pilots. >> inside this gated community is the home of malaysia airlines captain zaharie ahmed shah. police confirmed they have searched it, interviewed his family and examining the flight simulator the pilot kept at his house. zaharie ahmed shah's friend were quick to defend him. this was posted on youtube. most believe he could not be involved. >> i know him as a person that cares tore people. if anything would happen to the plane, he'd make sure crew and passengers, their welfare is taken care of instead of thinking about himself. >> in a nearby suburb is the copilot's home, which police searched a day earlier. the captain and copilot did not ask to fly together. >> fariq abdul hamid was also aledged to have invited people amounts into the cockpit in 2011 and was said to be smoking on board. a neighbour describes

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boeing has certainly joined with the national transportation safety board, we have a technical advisoryeam in the asia, and we have doing everything to maintain a sufficient, and efficient global transportation system. >> he declined to answer any questions into the investigation, but there were some promising leads late yesterday, chinese satellite photos that appeared to show possibly some debris in the water, but the area was checked out and unfortunately no plane has been discovered. and the uss kidd is moving from the gulf of thailand to the straight, as the search area continues on both sides of the peninsula. >> there are new leads that the plane may have been flying as many as four hours after it disappeared from radar. >> the wall street journal first reported this. data coming back from the engines appeared to keep coming back for a number of hours after the plane dropped off of the radar. here is what officials had to say about that. >> whenever there are new details, they must be corroborated. as far as we are concerned, those reports are inaccurate. >> but two aviation sour

adding to the grief of the families the national transportation safety board could conclude all this the act of one man, a pilot who wanted to commit suicide. >> it ended up crashing here in the river. >> reporter: thomas anthony remembers silk air 185 clearly. he was with the faa and part of the silk air investigation. a pilot intentionally downing a passenger plane is still hard for him to think about. how horrifying is that? as someone who is investigating this? >> it's something that most of us should never consider. it is so extremely rare. it is beyond -- almost beyond imagination. >> reporter: and still disputed. investigators say the cause remains inconclusive and a jury said that it was caused by a failed part of the airplane's rudder. the victims' family never got an answer. just like egypt air flight 990. the ntsb ruled that the pilot intentionally caused the crash. egyptian authorities say it was mechanical failure. >> it's like a jigsaw puzzle in which there are thousands of pieces and not all those pieces are at the bottom of the ocean. >> reporter: could someone in the

the bottom line is, it can't happen to anyone. >> experts say on time performance is important, but can't over shadow a culture of safety. mark rosenker is a former chairman of the national transportation safety board. >> but when, in fact, you use that as an excuse and begin, if you will, to diminish the value of safety and not recognize that it takes a full commitment, you can end up with a situation where you see four accidents in eight months with 120 people injured and five fatalities one of which is one of your employees. >> the federal railroad administration ordered metro-north to submit plans to correct its culture in 60 days. the ntsb's final report on the december derailment is expected later this year. >> terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: up next, after one year, what is next for pope francis? ado. >> axelrod: it has been a year now since pope francis began his reign, a year in which francis signaled that change is coming to the church. drawing some sharp divisions among catholics in the process. mark phillips who has been covering this papacy from the start and takes stock of where francis is headed. >> reporter: st. peter's square at the vatican, a year ago this place was

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the national transportation safety board, who are by far and away the most experienced in investigations -- one of the few statements they have put out since it began, investigators with expertise in air traffic control and radar are providing technical assistance to the malaysia authorities who are working on locating the missing jetliner. in simple english, it means the american experts in looking at radar and those who have done this over many years in many circumstances, are now getting to grips with the investigation on where that plane might be. >> kit, five days into this hunt for this missing plane, simply seems to have vanished, they're now doubling, tripling the area that they're searching for. how troubling is that to you? what does it suggest? >> well, the few pieces of information we had that began to give this investigation some direction have now been challenged for their authenticity. and we don't really know. so we have the scenario of the airplane continuing, that this track is false. we have -- the track could be accurate. and now leads us in another direction. so we d

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. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board has specifically sited the rail cover of theot 111 as a cause of the accident. one example was in lac megantic, quebec. it is one of a series of recent explosions. among the most concerned the residents of this development, home to roughly 180 families. >> the concern is how will we get out. you have handicap people, elderly people. >> reporter: albany's oil boom is a matter of geography, it was the logical destination for shipments headed out of north dakota to refineries up and down the east coast, but the surprise. >> part of the problem is the state is preempted by the federal government in terms of regulation of the railways. and this has snuck up on all of us. >> reporter: it was just two years ago when global partners, a leading shipper of oil by rail, sent it first payload through albany. today it handles about 1.8 billion gallons of the flammable oil each year. global partners is looking to expand in albany and at a new terminal 65 miles north of new york city. the federal railroad administration insists that when it co

investigators with the national transportation safety board will determine the cause of the accident by examining the plane. >> disappearance of malaysia airlines flight mh370 was deliberately done not a malfunction. >> this morning, american ships are on the move headed to the edge of the indian ocean where there is an indication flight 370 may have gone down. they are seriously considering the possibility the disappearance was not an accident. two sources tell abc that the two communications systems were shut down separately adding to the theory this could have been a deliberate act. >> maybe a hijacking. maybe a pilot suicide. maybe there was some land to take this airplane somewhere. >> officials say the plane may have friend up to four hours beyond the last citing and they know this because the jet was pinging a satellite. the possibilities are growing. the malaysian airport where it took off passengers are spraying for the 239 people still missing >> i am hopeful. hopeful. >> 40 ships and 40 aircraft from 12 countries are searching for the missing planes but the experts are com

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administrator's regional office who has turned over the investigation of the crash to the national transportation safety board. investigators from the ntsb are currently on site. you may know they will have a press conference at 1:00 o'clock on site. it is my understanding that the site will need to be secured for several days, potentially up to three to five days. in addition, the seattle and fire department, the seattle and police department are managing the incident response and will also be supporting the federal investigation. as many of you know there are police and firefighters at the seen that can be made available to you. seattle public utilities is currently cure naturing a clean up response because of the fuel that spilled. there was ten tons of sand dumped to absorb the fuel. there are vacuum trucks currently at site cleaning up the fuel and the sand. presently the south side of seattle center near the base of the space needle is closed off. there is also -- the space needle is closed at moment. the mono rail is closed at the moment and may need be to closed for the rest of today if not longer. at

adding to the grief of the families the national transportation safety board would conclude all this was the act of one man. a pilot who wanted to commit suicide. >> it ended up crashing here in the river. >> reporter: thomas anthony remembers silkair 185 clearly because he was the faa civil air and a pilot intentionally downing a plane is hard for him to think about. >> how horrifying is that? as someone who is investigating this? >> it's something most of us should never consider because it is so extremely rare it's beyond, almost beyond imagination. >> reporter: still disputed anthony points out, indonesian investigators said the cause remains inconclusive and in civil trial at that los angeles jury decided the crash was caused by a failed part of the plane's rudder. the victims families never got a clear answer just like another crash egypt air flight 990. the ntsb ruled the pilot intentionally caused the 1990 crash. egyptian authorities say it was caused by mechanical failure. >> it's like a jigsaw puzzle. a jigsaw puzzle in which there are thousands of pieces and not all those p

>> reporter: the national transportation safety board has been looking into a lot of things including possible defects in the electronics or software in toyota cars. and they didn't find anything. so that is still a bit of a mystery. >> okay, anne makovec, thank you. >>> the crisis in ukraine is escalating. russian flags were raised above a naval base in crimea after pro russian forces took control. a new russian sign was put up outside crimea's parliament. russian president vladimir putin signed a treaty with crimean leaders and they plan to make the incorporation official by the end of the week. vice president joe biden is wrapping up a trip to the region. he is there to reassure the leaders of lithuania and poland they have u.s. support. >> i want to make it clear we stand resolutely with our baltic allies in support of ukraine and against russian aggression. >> britain also warned russian if it takes any further steps it could be expelled from the g8. ukraine has put its troops on high alert and are conducting drills near russian's border. >>> it's a tool used to help pilots fly a

the boeing 777. it has a very good safety record. boeing has delivered more than 1,000 aircraft since 1995. the national transportation safety boardthe ntsb, has logged fewer than 60 incidents involving this model since 1997. according to the ntsb most of them were minor incidents. it is one of the popular models for boeing because it can fly extremely long distances. some flights as long as 16 hours. >>> authorities are investigating what may have forced a san francisco bound plane to make an emergency landing in hawaii this weekend. japan airlines flight number 2 made it to honolulu international airport yesterday afternoon just after 1:00 hawaiian time. this is a photo of the plane on the tarmac from our sister station in honolulu. according to the pilot, there was a hydraulic issue with the boeing 787, the dreamliner. the plane had 171 people onboard including staff. but they all made it off the aircraft safely. >>> in oakland, a man is dead after a fire swept through his apartment. oakland firefighters say the residential fire started on santa clara avenue just north of lake merit around 2:00 yesterday morning. the victim onl

the boeing 777. it has a very good safety record. boeing has delivered more than 1,000 aircraft since 1995. the national transportation safety board has logged fewer than 60 incidents involving this model since 1997. according to the ntsb, most of them were minor. it's one of the popular models for boeing because it can fly extremely long distances, some as long as 16 hours. >>> authorities are investigating what may have forced a san francisco-bound plane to make an emergency landing in hawaii today. japan airlines flight number 2 made it to honolulu international airport this afternoon just after 1:00 hawaiian time. this is a photo we have for you of the plane on the tarmac from our sister station in honolulu. now according to the pilot there was a hydraulic issue with the boeing 787. the plane had 171 people on board, including staff. they made it off the aircraft safely. >>> just a perfect day outside here in the bay area. almost felt like summer in some places. but that's going to change tomorrow in a big way. take a look live look outside right now. you've got san francisco on your left, san jose on your right. and right in

scott the national transportation safety board is helping australian authorities pinpoint locations to search. >> pelley: jeff, thanks very much. mark rosenker is the former chairman of the transportation safety board and is now an analyst for cbs news. mark what do we make as the plane turning to the left and passing of those way points as it went off course? >> reporter: after this turn and validated the radar tracks that we've gotten the investigators are not very much closer to understanding why this was done. certainly the turn could have been done by using the flight management system which means they programmed these way points in it. or they could have been flown using the heading select switch on the auto pilot. or it could have actually been done by using the stick and flying it manually. >> pelley: what would that suggest to you about the person making that turn? >> reporter: i would believe that anybody who was able to make those kinds of turns and following those way points clearly had great knowledge about the systems and aviation. >> pelley: mark rosenker, thanks very mu

after being shut out for days, america's experts at the national transportation safety board and the federal aviation administration are being included in the investigation. >> there's nobody better in the world at investigating aircraft mishaps and so these are the pros. >> the mystery is only deepening. recent radar data suggests the plane may have veered hundreds of miles off course before vanishing. it prompted malaysia to ask india to join in the search. >> i hear that the search and rescue becomes just a search. >> reporter: those families of the 239 people on board the flight are still waiting for definite answers as to what happened to their loved ones. >> it just disappeared off the face of the earth and we if we could just find the wreckage or something, it would be a help probab probably. >> malaysia airlines says it has retired the flight code as a sign of respect to the passengers and crew on board. overnight "the wall street journal" says u.s. investigators believe the plane may have stayed in the air for up to four hours after disappearing from radar. possibly covering

mark rosenker is the former chairman of the national transportation safety board. >> first they have to be credentialed. you have to have the appropriate amount of certifications. an that's checked. by the company, with the faa. >> reporter: pilots are also subject to a battery of medical and psychological tests and criminal background checks. but the screening process varies widely country to country. >> how do you reassure passengers that, you know, these people who are flying these planes are trustworthy. >> we can look for people that, in fact, appear to be as normal as we like to believe you and i are. however, circumstances change in their life. pressures come about. because we are dealing with human behavior. >> a month ago annette croppian air lines copilot hijacked a plane in a bid for asylum in switzerland. 14 years ago egypt air flight 1990 crashed into the atlantic ocean killing all 217 people on board. the ntsb stopped short of calling it a suicide but concluded the pilot's actions caused the crash. malaysia air is a mystery and an anomaly. still air travel remains the sa

more on where the investigation stands, i spoke moments ago with the former head of the national transportation safety board and now cbs news' aviation and transportation safety analyst. hearing that, a japanese plane sitting on the ground because the indonesian authorities won't give it permission to take off. time is being lost. >> that is extraordinary. i believe the search was part of the better part of what was going on here with great cooperation and incredible meticulous methodical work done to try to find the aircraft. which is not the way the investigation is being operated by the malaysians. >> right. what do you think about the fact that the thai authorities say a reexamination of their military radar said the plane did cross back, but they didn't think to tell anyone. >> that is an example of how this investigation is really being absolutely -- i am at a loss for words to say how inept this investigation has been for the last 11 days. i also can't understand that once the malaysian air force began to track this aircraft when the civilian radar went down on it, and it went over their air space an